Romans 13 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised（CSBA）

A Christian’s Duties to the State

1Let everyone submit to the governing authorities,  since there is no authority except from God,  and the authorities that exist are instituted by God.

2So then, the one who resists the authority is opposing God’s command, and those who oppose it will bring judgement on themselves.

3For rulers are not a terror  to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the one in authority? Do what is good, and you will have its approval.

4For it is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, because it does not carry the sword for no reason. For it is God’s servant, an avenger  that brings wrath on the one who does wrong.

5Therefore, you must submit, not only because of wrath but also because of your conscience. 

6And for this reason you pay taxes, since the authorities are God’s servants, continually attending to these tasks. 

7Pay your obligations  to everyone: taxes to those to whom you owe taxes,  tolls to those to whom you owe tolls, respect to those to whom you owe respect,  and honour to those to whom you owe honour.

Love, Our Primary Duty

8Do not owe anyone anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. 

9The commandments, Do not commit adultery; do not murder; do not steal;   do not covet;   ,

and any other commandment, are summed up by this commandment: Love your neighbour as yourself.   ,

10Love does no wrong to a neighbour. Love, therefore, is the fulfilment of the law.

Put On Christ

11Besides this, since you know the time, it is already the hour  for you  to wake up from sleep,  because now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. 

12The night is nearly over, and the day is near;  so let us discard the deeds of darkness  and put on the armour of light. 

13Let us walk with decency,  as in the daytime: not in carousing and drunkenness;  not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarrelling and jealousy.

14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ,  and make no provision for the flesh to gratify its desires.